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Availability

EpiCenter is freely available to the public. The binary packages of EpiCenter are available for all three major operating systems: Linux, Macintosh, and Windows, and can be downloaded at the following links. The C++ source code is also available upon request for advanced users.

NOTE: please install and use a 64-bit version program if you have 64-bit operating system. 32 bit packages are for the 32-bit operating system and you may be not able to use it to analyze very large datasets if more than 4GB memory is required for the analysis.

Installation

Installation is to simply decompress one of the above EpiCenter compressed packages to your installation location.

Linux or MacOS X

If you download the package epicenter_<OS>.tar.gz to the folder "/home/<username>/downloads", and then you can issue the following commands to install the program to the folder "/home/<username>/install_dir" at your terminal window:

cd /home/<username>/install_dir

tar xfz /home/<username>/downloads/epicenter_<OS>.tar.gz

cd epicenterDIR

if needed, run ./install.sh to copy main executable binary files into "/home/<username>/bin"

Windows

EpiCenter's packages are in ZIP packages. Installation is simply to extract the package to a desired installation location. After extraction, open the extracted folder "epicenterDIR". Then double click the window batch file "launch_epicenter.bat" to launch Windows' Command Line Terminal, where you can run EpiCenter programs.

All programs and documents will be in the folder install_dir/epicenterDIR.